As a result, Byzantine literature was largely written in a style of Atticistic Greek, far removed from the popular Medieval Greek that was spoken by all classes of Byzantine society in their everyday lives. (wikipedia.org)

Modern spanking literature (since the late 20th century) often places the "spankee" into the focus: the reader is interested in what the "spankee" feels and experiences both physically and emotionally. (wikipedia.org)

For all of Austria's contributions to architecture, and having one of the most hallowed musical traditions in Europe, no Austrian literature made it to the classical canon until the 19th century. (wikipedia.org)

Kavirajamarga (850) by King Amoghavarsha I and his court poet Srivijaya is the earliest extant book on rhetoric and poetics but it is evident from this book that several styles of Kannada literature and poetry had already existed in previous centuries. (wikipedia.org)

Formalism was the dominant mode of academic literary study in the US at least from the end of the Second World War through the 1970s, especially as embodied in René Wellek and Austin Warren's Theory of Literature (1948, 1955, 1962). (wikipedia.org)

What a work of literature says cannot be separated from how the literary work says it, and therefore the form and of a work, far from being merely the decorative wrapping of an isolable content, is in fact part of the content of the work. (wikipedia.org)

The prestige of the Attic literature remained undiminished until the 7th century AD, but in the following two centuries when the existence of the Byzantine Empire was threatened, city life and education declined, and along with them the use of the classicizing language and style. (wikipedia.org)

Beginning around the 3rd century BC, it took two centuries to become a dominant literature of ancient Rome,[citation needed] with many educated Romans still reading and writing in Ancient Greek, as late as Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD). (wikipedia.org)

Latin literature, mostly ecclesiastical, continued to be written in the centuries following the withdrawal of the Roman Empire at the beginning of the fifth-century, including Chronicles by Bede (672/3-735), Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, and Gildas (c. 500-570), De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae. (wikipedia.org)

Rashtrakuta literature (Sanskrit:राष्ट्रकूट, Kannada: ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಕೂಟ ಸಾಹಿತ್ಯ) is the body of work created during the rule of the Rastrakutas of Manyakheta, a dynasty that ruled the southern and central parts of the Deccan, India between the 8th and 10th centuries. (wikipedia.org)

Its Latin root literatura/litteratura (derived itself from littera: letter or handwriting) was used to refer to all written accounts, though contemporary definitions extend the term to include texts that are spoken or sung (oral literature). (wikipedia.org)

Developments in print technology have allowed an evergrowing distribution and proliferation of written works, culminating in electronic literature. (wikipedia.org)

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Western Europe throughout the Middle Ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Horace, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire, from religious writers like Aquinas (1225-1274), to secular writers like Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), and Isaac Newton (1642-1727). (wikipedia.org)

Traditionally, the height of Latin literature has been assigned to the period from 81 BC to AD 17, although recent scholarship has questioned the assumptions that privileged the works of this period over both earlier and later works. (wikipedia.org)

The most important person, scholar, Sufi and poet of this period is Qazi Qadan (d-1551 AD).He has composed Doha and Sortha form of poetry and are an important landmark in history of Sindhi literature. (wikipedia.org)

The age of Shah Abdul Latif ( Kalhora period ) is most significant in the history of Sindhi literature.It was during this age that Sindhi was standardized.Sindhi classical poetry achieved its full blossom in the poetic work of Shah abdul Latif Bhittai. (wikipedia.org)

In Classical Antiquity, the didactic poetry of Hesiod, particularly his Works and Days, was regarded as a source of knowledge similar to the wisdom literature of Egypt, Babylonia, and Israel. (wikipedia.org)

Until fairly recent times Celtic languages continued to be spoken in Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland, and still survive, especially in parts of Wales Subsequently, the impact of Irish nationalism led to the partition of the island of Ireland in 1921, which means that literature of the Republic of Ireland is not British, although literature from Northern Ireland is both Irish and British. (wikipedia.org)

Even Hellenistic literature exhibits two distinct tendencies, one rationalistic and scholarly, the other romantic and popular: the former originated in the schools of the Alexandrian sophists and culminated in the rhetorical romance, the latter rooted in the idyllic tendency of Theocritus and culminated in the idyllic novel. (wikipedia.org)

The major seeks to provide an opportunity for selective and varied study of two or more literatures in their relation to each other, or for the study of a foreign literature in its relationship to an extraliterary discipline, such as film, music, or history (see the three options below). (dartmouth.edu)

More restrictively, literature is writing considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage. (wikipedia.org)

Jim Meyer considers this a useful characteristic in explaining the use of the term to mean published material in a particular field (e.g., "scientific literature"), as such writing must use language according to particular standards. (wikipedia.org)

The value judgment definition of literature considers it to cover exclusively those writings that possess high quality or distinction, forming part of the so-called belles-lettres ('fine writing') tradition. (wikipedia.org)

During Apartheid , in particular since the 1960s, Afrikaans literature formed one of the strongest forces in opposition to the status quo, and most acclaimed Afrikaans authors challenged the National Party government's domestic and foreign policies. (wikipedia.org)

This article tries to provide some definitions which together may give a better understanding of authors and literature in Austria and its territorial predecessors, referring to all published works as well as those with classic status. (wikipedia.org)

As a genre, apocalyptic literature details the authors' visions of the end times as revealed by an angel or other heavenly messenger. (wikipedia.org)

Literature Alive is a multi-faceted educational project, produced by Toronto-based multimedia company CaribbeanTales and sister company Leda Serene Films, that explores the work of Caribbean-Canadian authors. (wikipedia.org)

Apocalyptic literature is a genre of prophetical writing that developed in post-Exilic Jewish culture and was popular among millennialist early Christians. (wikipedia.org)

Formalism rose to prominence in the early twentieth century as a reaction against Romanticist theories of literature, which centered on the artist and individual creative genius, and instead placed the text itself back into the spotlight to show how the text was indebted to forms and other works that had preceded it. (wikipedia.org)

The period from the Fourth Crusade to the Fall of Constantinople saw a vigorous revival of imitative classicizing literature, as the Greeks sought to assert their cultural superiority over the militarily more powerful West. (wikipedia.org)

Anthropological Literature (AL) is an online database of citations to journal articles and articles in edited volumes and symposia held by the Tozzer Library (previously the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology), the anthropology library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (wikipedia.org)

The Austrian literature must be considered in close connection with German literature in general, and the borderline between proper German literature and the Austrian one is porous, due to rich and complex cultural exchanges. (wikipedia.org)

The object of this literature in general was to square the righteousness of God with the suffering condition of His righteous servants on earth. (wikipedia.org)

Key series include Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature, Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, and Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. (palgrave.com)

In ancient Egyptian literature, wisdom literature belonged to the sebayt ("teaching") genre which flowered during the Middle Kingdom of Egypt and became canonical during the New Kingdom. (wikipedia.org)

Irish writers have played an important part in the development of literature in England and Scotland, but though the whole of Ireland was politically part of the United Kingdom between January 1801 and December 1922, it can be controversial to describe Irish literature as British. (wikipedia.org)

Students planning to major in Comparative Literature will normally enroll in an Honors Program, which entails a thesis (60 to 80 pages) during their senior year. (dartmouth.edu)

Students pursuing the two-paper option will substitute another Comparative Literature course for CL 87. (dartmouth.edu)

Comparative Literature 85 (Senior Seminar) is required to fulfill the culminating experience requirement for students who do not meet the honor requirements, and Comparative Literature 85 and Comparative Literature 87 (Thesis Tutorial) for students meeting honors requirements. (dartmouth.edu)

Kazakh literature expands from the current territory of Kazakhstan, also including the era of Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, Kazakh recognized territory under the Russian Empire and the Kazakh Khanate. (wikipedia.org)

After 1950, as the French book market returned to normal, interest in spanking literature did not return to its former levels. (wikipedia.org)

Although Catalan is considered by some a variety of Occitan, this article will not deal with Catalan literature, which started diverging from its Southern French counterpart in the late 13th century. (wikipedia.org)